I’m back in Brazil after two weeks in NYC, and have a new chapter of TOUCANNUÍ to prove it; this one is less memoir and more think-piece, looking at Brazilian’s current shopping fever and some reasons behind it:

“Ser Estrangeiro”, the newest chapter of my gringo-in-Brazil memoir TOUCANNUÍ, is a simpler affair, a reflection about what it means to make a Big Move to another country and what it does to your idea of yourself. It lives here on Trip City now; you can also scroll down for links to the rest of the series, wink wink: